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Confirmed with Peter Cornelius, Gedichte, eingeleitet von Adolf Stern, Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger, 1890, page 88.

Note: in another edition of this poem by Cornelius, line 13 ("Sollt's Manna sein") is expanded to two lines: "Sollt's Manna gar/ Vom Himmel sein"; and the final line of the poem is "Fang's ein, halt's fest, nimm's mit!", which is also the title.

Text Authorship:

• by Peter Cornelius (1824 - 1874), "Halt's fest, fang's ein, nimm's mit!", appears in Gedichte, in 1. Lieder [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by José Vianna da Motta (1868 - 1948), "Guter Rath" [ voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder von Peter Cornelius, no. 2, unpublished; the manuscript of this group of songs is labelled op. 10, but a different set of songs is published under that opus number [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Alexander Ritter (1833 - 1896), "Nimm's mit!", op. 16 (Fünf Gedichte für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2 (1890-1), published 1891 [ voice and piano ], München, Aibl [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

This text was added to the website: 2011-07-10
Line count: 21
Word count: 68